From new releases to classics, here’s a handful of the best cinema on the big screen.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Read the poem ‘River Otters,’ by Jenn Carter
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘We Survived the Night’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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A fraught mother-son relationship is at the heart of Jason Brown’s new memoir
But in ‘Character Witness,’ the Hallowell native also explores addiction, anxiety and how the past can cloud the present.
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Portland exhibit shows off multifaceted artists’ personal narratives | Column
‘otherwise,’ a new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, shows us how the stories artists tell are too varied to contain a single vision of America.
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She found an old photo, then reimagined her grandmother’s life
With ‘Indignity,’ Lea Ypi rescues her Albanian forebear, who grew up in the Ottoman Empire, from the flattening bureaucratic archives.
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Portland artists reimagine ‘The Messiah’ as a modern immigration story
‘Gospel Messiah: A Refugee Oratorio’ will bring spoken word poetry and gospel music to The Hill Arts from Nov. 14 to 16.
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Northern Light Health’s Waterville walk-in clinic to close this month
The clinic was previously set to close at the end of the year, but is closing earlier due to low patient volume.
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Negotiations continue between Northern Light, Anthem on Monday
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says patients are out of network at Northern Light Health unless an extension is made or contract is reached. Northern Light says it won’t bill Anthem or its patients until negotiations are resolved.
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Wessie’s Den closes in Westbrook
The video and pinball arcade/pub launched on Brown Street in early 2022.